New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week sees new music from the likes of Deftones, Three Days Grace, Burning Witches, Blackbriar and Arcadia among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
August 22, 2025 Release Highlights:
Deftones, Private Music (Reprise):
The rockers’ tenth studio album is already garnering rave reviews, with Forbes calling it “11 tightly knit and immaculately produced songs, that showcase some of the best performances and most memorable hooks from the band in decades.”
Three Days Grace, Alienation (RCA):
Original frontman Adam Gontier returns to the fold for the band’s eighth studio effort, forging forward with two lead singers. Said singer Matt Walst of the album: “it’s a pretty diverse album. There’s some really heavy songs and some other songs that are pretty heartfelt ballads.”
Burning Witches, Inquisition (Napalm):
The Swiss power metal band releases its sixth studio album, which according to the Napalm website, is a “darker, more thunderous brew — diving headfirst into the themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and the unbreakable spirit of resistance.”
Blackbriar, A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast):
The Dutch symphonic metal band releases its third studio effort. Metal Insider’s own Jordeana Bell praised it, saying “This isn’t just another album, it’s an epoch.” You can check out the full review here.
Arcadea, The Exodus of Gravity (Relapse):
According to their Bandcamp, the psychedelic rock supergroup’s (which features Mastodon’s Brann Dailor on vocals) sophomore album is “a futuristic synth-rock odyssey set five billion years in the future, in a world where gravity no longer holds us down—literally or metaphorically— but pulsing with the urgency of now.”
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